Friedman will be showing off its most visible asset, the XGL 3D enhancements.

Expected desktop adoption to also be further buoyed this year. Lenovo is expected to announce that it will ship notebooks preloaded with Novell's SUSE Linux.

Another key component of Linux desktop adoption is application availability. Expect to see news from IBM and others in that vein that brings necessary enterprise applications to the Linux desktop.

Mobile Linux will also be an area of discussion, with an entire track and a keynote.

On the news end, Trolltech is holding an invitation-only fete on Monday night at which it is expected to announce something so secret they wouldn't do a pre-briefing on without a signed non-disclosure agreement.